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'''Basic Trope''': A robot with greater capabilities than strictly necessary for its functions. 
* '''Straight''': Mai-chan Mk-II, a maid robot with the capability of a super soldier. ([[Fun with Acronyms|The "MAI" stands for Mechanical Armed Infantry]])
* '''Exaggerated''': Mai-chan Mk-II, a maid robot with the capability to shoot down satellites from ground level (The "MAI" stands for "Mobile Armory Initiative")
* '''Justified''': Mai-chan Mk-II was built by the defense company [[Trope Co]] in an age of peace, the company decide that it's more cost-efficient to build robots with some battle abilities than to restructure their factories.
** Wealthy individuals want both maids and bodyguards, so [[Trope Co]] designed a robot that could do both jobs. The result is the Mai-chan Mk-II line.
* '''Inverted''': Mai-chan is [[Dojikko|incredibly clumsy]] as a maid, even though she's strictly built as a robotic one.
* '''Subverted''': Mai-chan's spec says that she's capable of fighting like a super soldier, but actually she can't.
** Mai-chan is really a military grade robot, her maid appearance is just use as disguise.
* '''Double Subverted''': ...[[Mugging the Monster|until someone is stupid enough]] [[Berserk Button|to threaten her beloved master, Bob]].
* '''Parodied''': Mai-chan was built with so, so many capabilities unrelated to her duty as maid, you wonder just what the hell [[Mad Scientist|the engineers of TropeCo]] were thinking.
* '''Deconstructed''': Mai-chan has serious identity crisis regarding her duty as a maid, what's with being a [[Person of Mass Destruction]].
* '''Reconstructed''': [[Defusing the Tykebomb|But Bob tells her]] [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|that she is doing great as a maid robot]], and that is exactly the encouragement she needs.
* '''Zig Zagged''': Some episode we see Mai-chan doing house chores, the other episodes we see her fighting an [[Alien Invasion]]. [[Apathetic Citizens|People doesn't seem to be bothered]] that a [[Person of Mass Destruction]] is [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight|walking amongst them]]... or maybe there are two or more Mai-chan, who knows.
* '''Averted''': All robots are built according to the duty they are supposed to perform.
* '''Enforced''': The author want to point out that [[War Is Hell]], by showing [[I Am Not a Gun|the (in)capability of someone existing for the sake of war to live a life of peace]].
* '''Lampshaded''': "That's... some awesome abilities you have there, Mai-chan."
* '''Invoked''': Mai-chan Mk-II was built for fighting, but [[I Am Not a Gun|decided to retire and do some peaceful work, like being a maid]].
* '''Exploited''': When thugs break into his house, Bob orders Mai-chan to fight them, because Mai-chan's spec says that she's built with the capability of a super soldier.
* '''Defied''': The government mandates that all robots should be built strictly for their purpose.
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???
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